[COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.]

1946 Present: Howard C.J. (President), Cannon and Jayetileke JJ.

THE KING v. PEDRICK SINGHO.

APPLICATION 73 of 1946.

S.C. 3-M. C. Panadure, 3,620.

Joinder of three charges of murder in one indictment- Offences committed in same transaction-Separate trials not necessary where no prejudice is caused to accused-Criminal Procedure Code, 88. 179 (1), 180 (1).

 Where three charges of murder were joined in one indictment and the facts of the three murders were so interwoven as to constitute a series of facts forming one transaction-
   
Held, that the accused was not prejudiced by the joinder of more than one charge of murder in the same indictment.

APPLICATION for leave to appeal against a conviction in a trial before the Supreme Court.

Mackenzie Pereira (with him K. A. P. Rajakaruna), for applicant.- Three charges of murder were included in one indictment. The Crown sought to justify the joinder (a) under Section 179, (b) under Section 180 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Section 180 does not apply because neither continuity of action nor community of purpose so as to make the alleged series of acts one tr